This study was approved by the National Research Ethics Service (NRES) committee London – West London and was conducted in accordance with the revised declaration of Helsinki (2000), the International Committee on Harmonisation Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines and National Health Service (NHS) Research Governance Framework. Imperial College London sponsored the research which was conducted…
On a 7-2 vote, a citizen advisory committee on Monday (October 9th, 2017) endorsed changing the formal name of downtown Eugene’s Broadway Plaza to Kesey Square. Councilor Mike Clark and John Iglesias, chief executive of Eugene-based Northwest Community Credit Union, voted against the recommendation. The vote came near the end of a 90-minute meeting, the…
Saying it “feels like a question I had to ask”, the Duke acknowledged the “growing pressure” to change the regulation of drugs use in the UK. As he left, the Duke said: “You guys have seen it and it’s affected your lives in ways I can only imagine, so it’s very interesting to hear that…
Is it not curious? And ridiculous? And brutally tragic? How we condemn and destroy the natural spiritual enhancer/potential cure (psilocybin) , and reward, to the tune of billions of dollars to Big Pharma, the obvious poison? Saunders [mayor who launched the 2018 ballot initiative to decriminalize psilocybin) himself claims that psilocybin helped him kick heroin…
Important to the case is whether the partiers knew or should have known they were trespassing on the property, a brick duplex in what attorneys said was a low-income neighborhood in northeast Washington. The partiers contend they thought they were [the host’s] guests. Justice Elena Kagan tapped her own experience in assessing the situation. “There…
Rehab centers for substance use and eating disorders could empty out as more people turn to psychedelics. Again, we’re not at this point yet. But such is the promise of psychedelic medicine. If the research pans out, the world of mental health care may look very different in the coming decades. Psychedelic treatment won’t be…
[In] July [of 2017, President Trump of the United States] told law enforcement officers “please don’t be too nice” when handling crime suspects. Mr. Rosenberg forcefully rejected [those] comments, sending an email to all D.E.A. employees at the time to tell them that they should not mistreat suspects. “We must earn and keep the public…
The five-year-long study involved 125 participants, all of whom were suffering from chronic pain. 83 were taking cannabis as a prescriptive pain mediator, whereas 42 chose to abstain. They found that 34 per cent of the cannabis users stopped taking their medication, in comparison to just two per cent of the non-smokers, with 98 per…
[Reverand Heidi] Grossman-Lepp charged that the raids violated the sect’s religious freedom. The police actions, she said, were akin to sending armed agents “into a Catholic Church to smash all the wine, destroy all the communion and arrest people for worshipping.” … [Another individual] joined the church as an affiliate congregation, put in a new…
Spokesperson Tracey Cheung told us natural psilocybin extraction is difficult and expensive to produce to cGMP standards. “Given the urgent unmet need, Compass has chosen to synthesize psilocybin to expedite research and regulatory approval to bring this treatment to patients without unecessary delays,” she said. “We plan to extend research into extracts at a later…
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